Japan Game Awards 2008 ::: OVERVIEW - Awards Guideline and Selection Criteria
[Amateur Division]
Eligible Game
All non-professionally produced works, regardless of their applicant's status (corporate, organization or individual), are eligible for the awards.
Products that are winners or current or past entrants of other contests (except the previous CESA GAME AWARD INDIES) are also eligible for entry as well as fully completed products.
However, products also entered in other contests which ban multiple contest entries will be ruled invalid (including products whose copyright has been transferred to the organizers of other contests).
Product Requirements
- All computer entertainment games are eligible, including those operable on consumer-oriented home videogame systems (stationary or portable-type) or personal computers, regardless of platform type.
- Games must comply with CESA ethics codes.
- Products must be at a playable stage of development.
- All rights related to any game for entry must belong to the applicant. Owners of any product which includes a third party's work, portrait, trademark or any other item which can be regarded as the property of a third party must have first received legitimate agreement of any such item's usage.
Applicant Qualification
No restrictions are imposed on the age, gender, nationality or status (corporate or organization) with the exception that all applicants must be current residents of Japan. Any number of products can be accepted for entry.
Applicant Period
Monday, March 17, 2008 - Monday, June 30, 2008
Application must arrive in above period.
Application Procedure
Please refer to the CESA website
Awards
◎ Grand Award (1 title) Award money: 500,000 yen
◎ Award for Excellence (number unspecified) Award money: 50,000 yen
◎ Honorable Mention (number unspecified) Shields
Award Selection Procedure
Several products will be nominated by the judges from the total field of entries during a first-stage evaluation session. Following this, a final judging session will be held to determine the finalists of the "Grand Award", "Award for Excellence" and "Honorable Mention".
